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Why Cladistics?
Students explore how biological classification is intimately associated with evolution.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Transportation and Travel
Students, while defining an extensive list of vocabulary terms on the board, identify common signs and symbols that they may encounter when traveling or using some form of transportation (enter, exit, push, pull, men,
women, caution, no...
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Anonymous Card Delivery
Students make cards as a form of good will. In this card making activity, students brainstorm a list of people who would benefit from an anonymous card. Students deliver the cards anonymously and observe the reaction of the recipients.
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Comma Exercise
In this comma exercise worksheet, students are given 18 sentences they must proofread and edit for comma usage.
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Mixing Colors With Beams
Student learn about color changes through the use of light beams. In this color mixing lesson plan, learners discover the difference between mixing colors with light and mixing colors with paint. Students gain understanding of how the...
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Seeing the World Through the Eyes of a Veteran
Pupils interview and take pictures of a Veteran and create a short story of their Veteran. In this Veteran lesson plan, students also bring a photograph of the Veteran while they were in service.
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Reclamation and Recycling
Students examine the many uses of mined lands after reclamation has been completed and discover the importance of recycling finding the difference between manufacturing with recycled materials and newly extracted materials.
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Are We Americans Again? A Portrait of Japanese American Internment
Students study letters and images of the Japanese American Interment during World War II. They discuss the issues presented.
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Go With the Flow!
Learners experiment with heat transfer in a countercurrent system and describe the importance of conduction in heat-energy transfer.
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PROJECTILE MOTION
Students measure muzzle velocity, and predict range of a projectile device. In this motion lesson students complete a lab and explain the outcomes of their experiments.
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Food Groups and the Food Guide Pyramid
Students read and explain food labels and decide in which part of the food guide pyramid selected food items belong.
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Postcards Across America
Fifth graders increase knowledge and awareness of the location and physical features of each of the fifty states in America.
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Cladistics Is a Zip...Baggie
Students explore how the grouping of organisms based on their shared derived characters forms the basis of a cladogram.
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???A Sound of Hammering??? by Dazai Osamu
Tenth graders read and analyze the story, "A Sound of Hammering," by Dazai Osamu. They answer discussion questions, conduct Internet research on the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, develop a character web, analyze the major themes...
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Imagination Factory: What Did You Do on Your Summer Vacation?
Here is an art idea for young students returning to school after summer break. Website provides ideas for making unique collages conveying any theme.